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...back to the summer of 1943. Colonel Roosevelt, home from duty as operations officer of a photoreconnaissance group in the Mediterranean, had been ordered by the A.A.F.'s General Henry H. Arnold to recommend a new plane to replace the makeshift, reconverted P-38s and B-17s. (Why "Hap" Arnold picked Newcomer Roosevelt to do this job was not made clear.) Over the violent objections of General Echols and his boss, Barney Giles, chief of air staff, Elliott Roosevelt had insisted on the XF-II. "Hap" Arnold put through a $50 million contract for 101 of them, although later...
...committee hardly missed him. It had Elliott Roosevelt.† Seated before a standing-room-only crowd this week, he announced that he had fought against the orders which brought him back to the U.S., that he had never even heard of the XF-II until "Hap" Arnold put him on to it. As for Johnny Meyer's expense accounts, they were "very largely inaccurate"; he had not even been in the U.S. for several of the shindigs Meyer said he had attended. Said Roosevelt: "If it is true that for the price of entertainment I made recommendations which would...
Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
Hills & a Home. Cardigan's Headmaster William Brewster, 53, also runs a conventional prep school near by (Kimball Union Academy). Two years ago a friend, Dartmouth Alumnus Harold ("Hap") Hinman, took him to see a deserted estate near Canaan, N.H., with Canaan Street Lake at its doorstep and the New Hampshire hills at its back. To help Brewster and Hinman start their school, Dartmouth College, which owned the estate, sold it to them for next to nothing. Well-to-do New Englanders (among them: Vermont's U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the Boston & Maine's President Edward...
...small (circ. 2,200) Sonoma (Calif.) Index-Tribune had a new, big-name columnist last week, and had him all to itself. His name: General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, lately boss of the A.A.F. During the war Hap Arnold bought a ranch in Jack London's famed Valley of the Moon, and told his next-door neighbors, co-Publishers Walter and Celeste Murphy, that he'd like to write for their weekly some time. They believed it a fortnight ago when they saw his first contribution, a bucolic homily titled Back to the Farm. Excerpts...